App Revenue Grows to 15% Globally $39 Billion in H1 2019
Despite what you may have read from other sources, consumers spent an estimated $25.5 billion globally in the Apple App Store in the first half of 2019. Google Play’s estimated gross revenue exceeds that to $14.2 billion for the same period. Interestingly, Tinder was the highest grossing non-game app in this period. It generated an estimated $497 million in revenue across both the Apple App Store and Google Play. This is up 32% over the same period of 2018. Other high grossing non gaming apps include Netflix ($399 million globally estimated for Q1 and Q2), Tencent Video ($278 million), IQ1YI and YouTube. And TikTok continues to beat Instagram, claiming fourth…
Mobile Photography & Art – My Top Five Apps by Em Kachouro
We are revitalising our Top Five Apps section to our Photo App Lounge column. This a section within TheAppWhisperer where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers and artists to list their top five apps and to explain why they have selected them. Kicking us off today is mobile photographer and artist, Em Kachouro, take a look! All images ©Em Kachouro
New! Mobile Photography, Art & Videography – App of the Day
We are always working on new features and ideas here at TheAppWhisperer HQ, one that we are bringing to fruition today is to introduce a new Mobile Photography, Art or Videography App of the day, some you may of heard of, others might be completely new to you. Whatever your developmental stage into the beautiful immersive and supportive world of Mobile Photography, Art and Videography, we’re hoping to keep you fully informed at all times. The other point to bear in mind, is not all of the apps we introduce here will be for the iOS system, we have been testing the Huawei P10 for sometime now and we are…
Adobe Lightroom Mobile now available for Android Phones
Adobe today announced the availability of Lightroom mobile for Android phones. Lightroom mobile is a companion app to Lightroom 5 desktop software, available as part of Adobe Creative Cloud. First released for iPad and iPhone, Lightroom mobile offers powerful capabilities to edit, organise and share images anywhere and anytime. Built on a powerful cloud sync architecture, Lightroom mobile provides the most efficient way to manage and edit images across desktop, mobile devices and the Web. With Creative Cloud Photography Plan, photographers have access to professional-class photographic workflows on desktops and smartphones, allowing users to perfect images on any device. Key Lightroom mobile capabilities include: · Sync edits, metadata and collection…
Instagram Updated With Discovery and Caption Editing
In this update, Instagram are continuing to improve the Explore page by making it faster to find people you want to follow. With this in mind, you’ll see that the Explore icon at the bottom of your screen has changed to a magnifying glass. When you open Explore, you’ll now see two tabs: Photos and People. The Photos tab has not changed. It contains the same scrolling grid of photos and videos you already know. The new People tab highlights interesting accounts for you to discover.
Creative Android Mobile Photography Tutorial By AlyZen Moonshadow – Part 4
We’re delighted to republish the fourth in a series of Android mobile photography tutorials by AlyZen Moonshadow. This series of tutorials started as an experiment for AlyZen to create seamless repeating patterns and in many ways it has now taken on a life of its own. This is is the fourth from the series and we’ll be publishing the others very soon. If you have missed the earlier parts, please follow the links below: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Over to you AlyZen (foreword by Joanne Carter). “This one I call “Cat Amongst The Pigeons”. It is essentially just a clipart cat and some pigeons placed over an…
EyeEm Arrives For Android Tablet
EyeEm is now available for your Android tablet. Explore photos on the big screen, edit your shots in brilliant high resolution and seamlessly switch between landscape & portrait mode. Mobile photo sharing never looked this good. EyeEm for Android tablets provides an entirely new and unique experience to discover beautiful photography. Just sit back, relax and discover photos, places and people from anywhere in the world. Check out the video to see how it works: Click here to download from Google play Video Features: * 17 unique photo filters * Contribute to albums and discover more photos and the people behind them * Share to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr and…
EyeEm – Photo Filter Camera – Updated
As Media Partners to EyeEm’s Photo HackDay we previously received the Press Kit relating to their new up and coming update to their Photo Filter Camera app but were sworn to secrecy. Finally the update has hit the App Store and we can reveal all. This update is a complete redesign of its iOS and Android applications, bringing both up to version 3.0. The third iteration of the popular photography app contains a raft of new features and optimizations, focussing on new routes to discovery of relevant pictures from around the world. There are many things we like about this app but perhaps the most important element is how the…
Facebook For Android – Updated – Faster Photo Sharing
This new update to Facebook for Android allows for faster photo sharing, you can also add emjoi and photos into messages too. You can also add multiple images into messages too. This is definitely worth upgrading to. Facebook for Android is free to download and you can do so here.
Nikon Annonce COOLPIX S800c With ANDROID Inside
As we mentioned on August 9 Nikon were bringing to market an Android powered COOLPIX very soon, well that day has arrived and today Nikon have officially launched the Nikon COOLPIX S800c. Powered by an Android operating system, it connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi to download any application from Google Play™, opening up a world of photo apps, social media apps and games. Packing a 10x optical zoom NIKKOR lens, back-illuminated 16-MP CMOS sensor and high-resolution 8.7 cm (3.5-in) OLED touch screen, it also has all the photography features you need to make sure you never again need to choose between an instant upload and getting a quality image…
